For most San Franciscans accustomed to being at the whims of speculators in a soaring real estate market, the arrival of a new landlord is a near certain harbinger of bad news.
That sum may prove hard to get in this economic climate, especially given his generally low approval ratings, which publishers view as a potential — but not certain — harbinger for sales.
William Henry Harrison urged the same: "The attempt of those of one State to control the domestic institutions of another can only result in feelings of distrust and jealousy, the certain harbingers of disunion, violence, and civil war, and the ultimate destruction of our free institutions".
There is a substantial Montauk contingent that perceives the Surf Lodge as the harbinger of a certain evil: resort-style gentrification.
And a certain Seattle-based coffee giant — a familiar harbinger of change — recently opened a branch on Coney Island.
Service With a Smile IN THE RHETORIC of customer service, there is a certain kind of mendacious politesse that is always the harbinger of maltreatment.
-SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL (Republican-Kentucky)., USAToday Service With a Smile IN THE RHETORIC of customer service, there is a certain kind of mendacious politesse that is always the harbinger of maltreatment.
While the CDC isn't usually known as a harbinger of uplifting news, I have to admit a certain amount of deflation upon hearing their findings that 80percentt of all Americans don't get enough exercise.
When Buck falls for a certain Vera, he finds her frequent use of the word like, "which he formerly had excoriated as an unpardonable lapse of verbal facility and harbinger of the collapse of Western civilization," charming.
If that's not an explicit sign that I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here is a harbinger of certain doom, I don't know what is.
YOU can always count on certain reassuring harbingers of autumn: the leaves change, the air becomes cool and crisp, and new versions of America Online and MSN appear.
